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Bad Brainsby Kathe KojaISBN 044021114X (0-440-21114-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Blue Mirrorby Kathe KojaISBN 0142406937 (0-14-240693-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Mirror'Book summary:The demon lover is an ancient theme with eternal appeal for young women, and Kathe Koja uses it to powerful effect in The Blue Mirror. Layered over the background of a contemporary and gritty street scene is the achingly poignant voice of sixteen-year-old Maggy, a loner and artist in love with a beautiful and mysterious boy named Cole. Maggy's greatest happiness is to sit for hours in the window booth of The Blue Mirror, nursing a cappuccino grande and capturing the life passing by in her sketchbook. At home she is an unwilling caretaker for her drunken mother, and her only comfort is her cat Paz--that is until Cole looks at her with those "incredibly deep and dark" eyes. The sweetness of his words and his vast need draw her in, and soon she spends almost all her days (and nights) wandering the cold streets with him, sleeping in his arms in a frigid open-air gazebo, and ignoring the other two women who trail him (childlike Jouly and angry Marianne). Not until Cole meets Paz (who greets him with terrified screeches and yowls), not until Marianne shows bruises and scrapes (from a "fall"), not until Jouly becomes a staring empty shell, and not until Maggy finally draws a true portrait of Cole, is she able to recognize the howling emptiness behind his pose of love. Koja's The Blue Mirror is an exquisite novel with just the slightest tinge of the supernatural. (Ages 14 and up) --Patty Campbell [via]
Borderlands 3by Kathe KojaISBN 1565041097 (1-56504-109-7)
Softcover, Psi
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Buddha Boy: Library Editionby Kathe KojaISBN 1417685727 (1-4176-8572-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buddha Boy: Library Edition'Book summary:The kids at school call Jinsen ?Buddha Boy??he wears oversize tie-dyed dragon T- shirts, shaves his head, and always seems to be smiling. He?s clearly a freak. Then Justin is paired with him for a class project. As he gets to know Jinsen and his incredible artistic talent, Justin questions his own beliefs. But being friends with Buddha Boy isn?t simple, especially when Justin realizes that he?s going to have to take sides. What matters more: the high school social order or getting to know someone extraordinary?[via]More editions of Buddha Boy: Library Edition:
- Buddha Boy: Library Edition: ISBN 0142402095 (0-14-240209-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Buddha Boy: Library Edition: ISBN 0374309981 (0-374-30998-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Buddha Boy: Library Edition: ISBN 0786260122 (0-7862-6012-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Buddha Boy: Library Edition: ISBN 0606327312 (0-606-32731-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Buddha Boy: Library Edition: ISBN 1417685727 (1-4176-8572-7)
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- Buddha Boy: Library Edition: ISBN 0142402095 (0-14-240209-5)
The Cipherby Kathe KojaISBN 0440207827 (0-440-20782-7)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Extremitiesby Kathe KojaISBN 1568581505 (1-56858-150-5)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extremities'Book summary:In the 16 stories of Extremities, Kathe Koja enters the lives of ordinary people caught in extraordinary and often disturbing situations. In "Bird Superior," for example, a plane-crash survivor trades his memory of the crash for the ability to fly. "Angels in Love" is the story of Lurleen, a washed-out woman trapped in a meaningless cycle of dead-end work, singles bars, and solitude. She lives vicariously by eavesdropping on Anne, a neighbor who seems to have found the passion and sexual satisfaction that eludes Lurleen. Upon meeting Anne, however, she discovers an even more meaningless life: Anne has made the ultimate trade, exchanging her soul for physical fulfillment. In "The Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard," an imprisoned poet who writes on behalf of the dispossessed shares the last moments of his life with the reader. Although the location of the prison is unclear, the scene recalls the Franco regime. The poet chooses to die rather than face a life without his writing, but, in his final seconds, he takes solace that his remains may one day form the body of a new poet.
Extremities is Koja's sixth book. Her writing is lush and poetic, yet at the same time she leaves much unsaid, counting on the reader to ground the stories with his or her own sense of place. Koja's blend of mundane characters, supernatural or at least unexplained situations, and a constant undercurrent of the erotic, is a satisfying and disturbing gateway into another world. Each story, unique in character and setting, gives a snapshot of an existence where reality and nightmares collide. --Andy Bookwalter [via]
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Going Underby Kathe KojaISBN 0374303932 (0-374-30393-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going Under'Book summary:[via]Because all my life had been a chrysalis, with you, Ada and Marshall and our house; even though we did other things and saw other people, the summers at the lake, and all those homeschoolers' parties, it was still always just - us.
Hilly and her brother, Ivan, have been homeschooled by their parents. All their lives it has been just the two of them - Ivan and Hilly, brother and sister, pilot and copilot. Until Hilly breaks out of their cozy cocoon to work on the local high school literary magazine as an extracurricular activity. Ivan feels betrayed: it's no longer just the two of them. And when Hilly goes into a depression after the suicide of a friend she has made at the magazine, she drifts even further away from Ivan. Hilly's parents insist that she see a psychotherapist. Ivan steps in to help manage Hilly's recovery by taking her to and from her appointments but compounds the betrayal by establishing his own relationship with the manipulative therapist.
Through the alternating voices of Hilly and Ivan, and drawing on the myths of Persephone and Narcissus, Kathe Koja explores the souls of two teenagers caught in a world where love takes you deeper than you ever dreamed you'd go.More editions of Going Under:
Headlongby Kathe KojaISBN 0374329125 (0-374-32912-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Kinkby Kathe KojaISBN 0805043918 (0-8050-4391-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Kissing the Beeby Kathe KojaISBN 0374399387 (0-374-39938-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kissing the Bee'Book summary:[via]Senior year is flying by, the prom is approaching, and Dana, her best friend, Avra, and Avras boyfriend, Emil, are about to encounter the pains and pleasures of that intricate beehive called adult life. While Dana plans on college, Avra plots escape once school is overand plans to take Emil along for the ride. What does Emil want? Hes not saying. Dana studies bees for a biology project, fascinated by their habits and their mythological imagery but in real life, emotions can sting, and while twos company, these three may just become a crowd. As Dana reminds us, in every hive there is only one queen bee.
With remarkably textured language and a distinctive heroine, Kissing the Bee is a novel of rare depth and stark honesty that will draw readers in from the very first page.Kissing the Bee is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.More editions of Kissing the Bee:
Skinby Kathe KojaISBN 0440211158 (0-440-21115-8)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skin'Book summary:Eager to grow and transform, Bibi, a guerrilla performance artist, begins ritual cuttings and scarrings of her own body, and not even her metal sculptor friend, Tess, can stop her. 25,000 first printing. [via]
Strange Angelsby Kathe KojaISBN 044021498X (0-440-21498-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Straydogby Kathe KojaISBN 1417617020 (1-4176-1702-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Straydog'Book summary:"What do you do when you're too smart for the freaks, but too much of a freak for the smart kids?" This is the question Rachel asks herself daily as she walks down the halls of her high school observing the strange rituals of the "TV Girls," "People from Planet Mensa," and the "Net Jockeys." Rachel couldn't care less that she doesn't fit in. As far as she's concerned, the only things she needs to survive are her volunteer work at the local animal shelter and her writing. Until she meets the feral collie she christens Grrl. To others at the shelter, Grrl seems completely untamable. But Rachel sees her own fury and frustration mirrored in the dog's deep brown eyes, and she is determined to domesticate Grrl. Inspired by the outlaw dog, Rachel's writing takes off, and she is even coaxed into sharing it with "Griffin Lost Boy," another creative loner like herself. But giving her story a happy ending and providing one for Grrl in real life are two totally different things, and no matter how strong Rachel thinks she is, she may not be strong enough to handle the truth about Grrl.
Weighing in at just over one hundred pages, this slim tome nevertheless packs a powerful emotional wallop. While angry, abused Grrl may seem like an obvious metaphor for the angry adolescent experience, author Kathe Koja's short, choppy sentences where both girl and Grrl snarl and snap at the world are well executed and inventive. Take this Straydog home from the pound immediately. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
Talkby Kathe KojaISBN 0312376057 (0-312-37605-7)
Softcover, Square Fish
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talk'Book summary:A powerful drama about self-acceptance[via]
Kit Webster is hiding a secret. Carma, his best friend, has already figured it out, and pushes him to audition for the high school play, Talk. When he's cast as the male lead, he expects to escape his own life for a while and become a different person. What he gets instead is the role of a lifetime: Kit Webster. In the play, Kit's thrown together with Lindsay Walsh, the female lead and the school's teen queen. Lindsay, tired of the shallow and selfish boys from her usual circle of friends, sees something real in Kit - and wants it. But Kit's attention is focused on Pablo, another boy in school. The play is controversial; the parents put pressure on the school to shut it down. And when Kit and Lindsay rally to save Talk, they find themselves deep into a battle for the truth: onstage, and inside themselves.
As in her other books, Ms. Koja's "long stream-of-consciousness sentences with creative (but recognizable) spelling and clever use of italics will enchant readers" (Booklist).
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